Re: [dev] bump copyright years?

2023-02-08 Thread Al
e question moot? If for no other reason, I would vote for dropping the year simply because it's inelegant to manually track information that Git already records for us automatically. .:AL:.

Re: [dev] [dwm] devilspie doesn't work

2011-05-05 Thread Al Gest
You know what's great? freedom of choice. You know what sucks? People telling you what you're allowed to do with the software you use. Is this suckmore or suckless? While I have no love for transparency given that the majority of transparency features in desktop environments are superfluous and co

Re: [dev] [dwm] devilspie doesn't work

2011-05-05 Thread Al Gest
On 5 May 2011 21:12, Kurt H Maier wrote: > I'm not telling anyone what they're allowed to do.  I'm telling them > what they're doing is stupid shit, and that founding principle of > suckless is basically sound. Who's likely to behave more intelligently, a person who experiments and finds out what

Re: [dev] [dwm] devilspie doesn't work

2011-05-05 Thread Al Gest
On 6 May 2011 02:46, Kurt H Maier wrote: > On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Al Gest wrote: >> Who's likely to behave more intelligently, a person who experiments >> and finds out what works and doesn't work for themselves and >> understands from experience why

Re: [dev] [dwm] devilspie doesn't work

2011-05-05 Thread Al Gest
On 6 May 2011 04:49, Kurt H Maier wrote: > The question did not warrant more. It clearly did, the problem is the question was fairly loaded, and answering the question honestly would have contradicted your position. >> That doesn't provide any substance or merit to your belligerence. >> Vitriol

Re: [dev] [dwm] devilspie doesn't work

2011-05-05 Thread Al Gest
On 6 May 2011 05:06, Kurt H Maier wrote: > It's also irrelevant, because nobody is 'experiementing' > here.  There are other routes for 'experimentation.' Let me direct your attention to the original poster. > I'm not interested in how you think I come across.  Fortunately, > idiots like you don

Re: [dev] [dwm] devilspie doesn't work

2011-05-06 Thread Al Gest
On 6 May 2011 15:13, Kurt H Maier wrote: > If stupidity goes unchallenged, it gets institutionalized, and then > you have Lennart Poettering. So why do you get so agitated when people challenge yours?

Re: [dev] [dwm] devilspie doesn't work

2011-05-06 Thread Al Gest
On 6 May 2011 15:39, Kurt H Maier wrote: > Is this supposed to be clever, or are you trying to say something I thought the implication was quite clear, my mistake.

Re: [dev] wmpus - a new cross platform wm

2011-09-30 Thread Al Gest
I'm quite interested in the possibility of using its functionality on Windows, but it seems to be bundled with a very suckfull license that I tend to avoid like the plague. On 30 September 2011 08:23, Andy Spencer wrote: > Hello there, > > I would like to point out a project I've started on for *

Re: [dev] wmpus - a new cross platform wm

2011-10-02 Thread Al Gest
> The GPL is generally my preferred license, but lets not get into that > argument now. However, I could probably be convinced to switch to a > permissive license for this particular program. Would the ISC license > work for you? Revised BSD, ISC, and MIT licenses are all suckless in my book, or a

Re: [dev] Anti-GPL hipsters

2011-10-24 Thread Al Gest
ividual level, because once you introduce the interests of others you introduce restrictions. That isn't to say that the interests of others are not important of course, but to claim that the GPL is about freedom is just plain bull. The restriction of freedom is a necessity for the GPL to achieve its purpose, enforced sharing. Al.

Re: [dev] recommend suckless mail server

2012-04-20 Thread Al Gest
> Can anyone suggest a suckless mail server? qmail.

Re: [dev] Git? Bitch Please

2012-11-30 Thread Al Gest
My biggest problem with fossil and why I wouldn't call it suckless is "there's an embedded webserver with bugtracker and todo management." as pancake highlighted. It doesn't really follow the UNIX philosophy of "do one thing, and do it well". On 30 November 2012 12:39, Stanislav Paskalev wrote: